Back in early March, West Central Valley head football coach Eric Addy began a new Friday training regiment designed to cultivate internal competition. Addy joined the Guthrie County PM Sports Page this week to discuss several topics ahead of next month’s start to the season. Addy explains when conducting speed and agility drills, he breaks the group into small teams or partner that’ll push his kids. He adds the use of the social media platform Twitter is for extra motivation during Black Out Fridays where the winning group wins weekly ownership of a plastic wrestling belt. “We wear all black on Fridays, call it ‘Blackout Friday’ and compete for that championship belt,” Addy said, “It’s literally a (wrestling) belt I bought and slapped one of our big (Wildcat) decals on it. It’s something to motivate kids.”

The winning group poses for a picture with the belt that Addy tweets out after every Blackout Friday workout. Among some of the football players who’ve captained teams to the championship belt during Blackout Fridays in 2018 include Cole Arnburg, Wyatt Clemetson, Jackson Doyle, Rush Rowan, Cole Sackett, Blake Sechrist, and Carson Wadle. The West Central Valley Wildcats start the 2018 season in Urbandale on Friday, August 24 against the Des Moines Christian Lions.